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[The Silver Case / 25th Ward] On Steam and PS4! 25 Wards later... It Is Happening Again
cj iwakura
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- Developer: Grasshopper Manufacturer / Active Gaming Media
- Publisher: Playism
- Platform: PC (Steam/GOG/Playism/Humble/etc.)
- Genre: Visual Novel/Adventure
- Price: $19.99, $17.99 at launch
- A Suda 51 Trip, Music by Masafumi Takada
Requirements:
OS: Windows XP SP2+ or newer
Processor: SSE2 instruction set support or greater
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: DX9 (shader model 3.0) or greater
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 7 GB available space
The Silver Case was originally released for the PS1 in 1999. It was Suda51's first game with his new studio, Grasshopper Manufacturer, formed after he left Human Entertainment.
The Silver Case was made with an extremely small team, so the film window system was a result of the game's financial limitations. Though major story developments are told through copious amounts of text, still artwork, animation clips, and even live action footage serve as visual aids.
Although there are references to his earlier Syndrome games from Human Entertainment, The Silver Case is largely standalone, and would mark the start of a trilogy that would later come to be known as the Kill The Past series.
The story that begins here will continue in Flower, Sun, and Rain and end with the tale of the Killer7.
Not to mention that maybe, just maybe, the success of this could lead to a localization of the sidestory sequel, Ward 25.
1999 - the "24 Wards". A string of mysterious serial killings plagues the city. The detectives of the 24 Wards Heinous Crimes Unit have their eyes on one man: Kamui Uehara, legendary serial killer and assassin of a number of government officials 20 years prior in the now-famous "Silver Case". However, nobody knows who - or what - Kamui really is.
Has he really returned? Who is this infamous serial killer?
The player takes control of the protagonist - a member of the Special Forces Unit known as “Republic” - from a first-person perspective. The primary story, Transmitter, consists of five chapters. A secondary chapter, Placebo, is told from the perspective of a journalist attempting to piece together the myriad truths of The Silver Case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09tLjciZ3_MThere is no game in the world like it, the first chapter of the trilogy which includes Flower, Sun, and Rain & Killer7.
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Heh, I did, but I'm insane.
Wonder how much of the game they'll keep intact... it has a lot of live action FMV, and it's pretty important to the story.
http://believeintheinternet.com/
Couple bits from the team:
Not much longer now. I hope we have a LOT to see after waiting this long.
It's clearly forming an English logo:
I wonder if this will retroactively make 'Flower Sun and Rain' make a lick of sense?
It couldn't hurt, since it's a direct sequel. The very last line in FSR refers to TSC(and is even done in the same presentation style).
http://gematsu.com/2016/05/silver-case-remake-announced-pc
Original:
Remaster:
Suda:
Looks wonderful.
New footage from Bit Summit, with Suda(audio kicks in later):
FMV is in, and the background looks great.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/476650/
That is one hell of a demo, and it includes an ADV segment!
Here's some screens.
New UI is ultra slick.
Also, in case anyone is wondering, Akira is you, the player. You get to name him when you start the game.
Very well cut demo, they knew just how to hook people in. And they haven't seen anything yet.
I really am the only one here playing it, aren't I?
Is this more Visual Novel with puzzles like a 999, or more of a Ace Attorney kind of framework?
I like the look of it though, and I've generally been down for some Suda stuff.
It's half VN, half adventure game. Think like Tex Murphy.
In case anyone's confused by Chapter 0, it's one giant Moonlight Syndrome reference.
Uh, what the hell HAPPENED in the Syndrome games?...
http://www.paradisehotel51.com/ts.html
There you go.
Massive spoilers, obviously, but who knows when or if that's gonna get localized.
(Note, this is not the Sumio from Silver Case/FSR.
Welcome to draw connections, though!)
Yayoi showed Ryo to the v.i.p. room of a night club called "Lost Highway". Sumio was in the backroom waiting for Ryo to show up. Yayoi handed Ryo a bag. Inside the bag was Kyoko's head. Ryo kept her head after Sumio was killed during a double homicide by an ex lover.
Ryo received a phone call from Kyoko shortly after he returned home. However this is impossible, because Kyoko is dead. It's around this time that Ryo's mind starts to twist & turn the reality around him little by little. (This eventually escalates into full blown madness by the time we see Ryo in Silver Case.)
Rumi Toba
The woman who
The Jack Hammer Bartender might be my favorite character.
PS4 version incoming, thanks to NISA.
Also, the live action stuff is subtitled, like I expected.
https://twitter.com/suda_51/status/856869154791579648
https://www.instagram.com/p/BTT4-euF8Wd/
'Kill the Life' is the slogan for Ward 25, originally a mobile-only sequel to The Silver Case, taking place some years later.
Once more into the breach, Sumio!
It's being completely updated from the mobile version, and new chapters may also be added as well.
The original had three scenarios, here's some old art from the mobile version:
There's every indication it's even more twisted than the first game.
Whiteout is a prequel to The 25th Ward, and is absolutely mental.
This update also added remixes to the chapter select, and Kamuidrome now has a new actress portraying Sayaka Baian. (Seriously)
Row on twitter did up the bios for the cast:
So five MCs in all. I figured Transmitter and Matchmaker were for each of the two detectives and Placebo was, of course, Morishima again.
Going out in a few but I'll fire it up tonight perhaps.
It's something you'll have to stick with to make sense of.
Thanks, figured as much. Was too distracted when I first messed with it so I figured it was better to put it aside until I could focus.
I think so. I hear PS4 has bugs.
(New art for Famitsu.)
Bios: